Petrograd, Smolny
June 4, 1919

I would consider it necessary to release Natsarenus to Ukraine, where the need for workers is extraordinary, while you have a surplus.

Then I ask you to travel to the Western Front, which is terribly weakened with regard to commissars. It is absolutely necessary to support the entire front as a whole.

I have received the materials with your letter and have begun to examine them.

Lenin

# TELEGRAM TO THE VORONEZH DISTRICT WATER TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION
June 4, 1919

Immediately transfer the steamer "Pavlovsk" with equipment and fuel to the Don Flotilla. Report on execution.

Lenin

*Printed from a typewritten copy.*

# TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
Petrograd, Smolny
June 5, 1919

The question of Natsarenus I am referring to the Central Committee. It is necessary to take into account that there is a tremendous deterioration in the south, danger of catastrophe. There is complete depopulation there, while you have a surplus of people. I have informed Chicherin.

Against your order to fire in response, of course I have no objection*.

Lenin

# TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT
June 5, 1919

We are not yet entirely informed of the situation on the Southern Front, but it is evident that the only possible way to save the left flank of the Southern Front is the swift suppression of the uprising**.

Telegraph what measures you are undertaking. Yesterday five hundred cadets were sent to you from the Western District, and a battery from Moscow. You will receive the numbers of the echelons additionally.

Lenin

*Printed from a handwritten copy.*

* The reference is to the repulse of the White Finns, who were carrying out bandit raids on the Soviet border.

** On the left flank of the Southern Front, Denikin's forces began to advance in the direction of the Likhaya-Tsaritsyn railway line and in the Millerovo direction. Having captured Millerovo, Denikin's troops moved toward the Cossack settlement of Kazanskaya, to unite with the White Guard Cossack uprising on the Don.